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alicia
I had to go to ER Monday night and didnt get discharged until 9am Tuesday morning! Oh how uncomfortable those stetchers are. They had to end up giving me a strong pain pill because my back and chest were hurting from laying there so long!
I went due to flutters and rapid heartbeats. When they put me in triage my heartrate was 124. They immediately moved me to a room and after 4 attempts got an IV started. Chest x ray revealed I have a partialy collapsed lung probably since surgery. They did an EKG and kept me on heart monitor. Ny HR never dropped below 100 and I had several bouts of taccacrdia (sp).
My cardiologist got to ER and decided to have a drug put in my IV that stopped my heart for 5 seconds and made me flush all over to determine what rhythum my heart was in. I was in sinus taccacardia. He decided to put me back on Coreg and Digoxin. Im dreading them kicking in beacuse before when I took them they slowed me down incredibly.
I called my cardiologist at Duke and they have the echo tape from my local cardiologist and will review tomorrow and call me with their interpreation of it. I go see my local cardiologist next week for evaluation/foolow up from ER visist and to discuss what Duke found out about tape. Im starting a long list of things to go over with him.
Sorry about long post, I guess I have to get it out. Im trying to remain positive.
I went due to flutters and rapid heartbeats. When they put me in triage my heartrate was 124. They immediately moved me to a room and after 4 attempts got an IV started. Chest x ray revealed I have a partialy collapsed lung probably since surgery. They did an EKG and kept me on heart monitor. Ny HR never dropped below 100 and I had several bouts of taccacrdia (sp).
My cardiologist got to ER and decided to have a drug put in my IV that stopped my heart for 5 seconds and made me flush all over to determine what rhythum my heart was in. I was in sinus taccacardia. He decided to put me back on Coreg and Digoxin. Im dreading them kicking in beacuse before when I took them they slowed me down incredibly.
I called my cardiologist at Duke and they have the echo tape from my local cardiologist and will review tomorrow and call me with their interpreation of it. I go see my local cardiologist next week for evaluation/foolow up from ER visist and to discuss what Duke found out about tape. Im starting a long list of things to go over with him.
Sorry about long post, I guess I have to get it out. Im trying to remain positive.